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Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge was a Russian painter who was influential in the development of Russian symbolism. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects.
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culture · Russian painter (1831–1894) · painter · university teacher · also Nikolai Ge, Nikolay Ge, Nikolaĭ Ge, Nikolaj Nikolaevitch Ge, Nikolai Nikolajevitch Gay, Nikolay Nikolayevich Ge
Born 15 February 1831 · Died 1 June 1894 · Q457976
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“Observations on the design and building of the Roman Segovia Aqueduct”
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The Arts Desk: theartsdesk in Moscow: Nikolai Ge at the Tretyakov Gallery
After the Tretyakov Gallery was able to arrange sponsorship from a Russian state bank to purchase them for donation to the gallery's permanent collection
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None of Ge's works was found in her castle
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Died 1894-06-01.
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Bought a small khutor (farm) in Chernigov Governorate (present-day Ukraine), known as Ivanovsky, and moved there
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Ge again returned to Saint Petersburg where he turned to Russian history for subject matter
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Ge painted Herzen's portrait along with the Messengers of the Resurrection and the first version of Christ on the Mount of Olives
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That Ge was made a professor of the Imperial Academy of Arts
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Ge painted The Last Supper using a photograph of Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen as an image for his central figure of Christ
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Won Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1857).
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Graduated from the Academy where he received a gold medal for The Witch of Endor Invoking the Spirit of the Prophet Samuel
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Studied at Imperial Academy of Arts (1857).
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Ge gave up his career in science and enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg
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Born 1831-02-15.
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